Word: sadnesses
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...dare. I read in a recent op-ed in these pages that 9.5 percent of students here have considered suicide, and 45 percent have suffered major depression. Like much of America, and like students at our “peer institutions,” Harvard students are sad. It is bizarre that the context of these revelations was an article calling for the expansion of athletic facilities, based upon studies linking physical health to mental health. That may be true, and there’s no doubt that an improved MAC would make a lot of people happy. But there?...
Hovering over the joyous atmosphere, however, was the spectre of the Holocaust. Just like the ceremonial breaking of a glass at a Jewish wedding, the Holocaust was a constant reminder to the town’s inhabitants that “the world is sad and needs healing...
...recent nightclub tragedies in Chicago, Ill. and Providence, R.I. strike with especial poignance to the college crowd. The sad and painful death of so many people resonates with students—many of whom frequent nightclubs regularly. It seems that disasters such as these could strike at a club near Harvard, or any college campus, in the plainest and most ordinary of circumstances...
...He’s a wonderful economist and we’re going to be very sad to lose him,” said Oliver Hart, chair of the economics department...
...emplacement overlooking the site, had watched his comrades cut down, unable to help. In the confusion afterwards a dozen armed men wandered among the wreckage, stepping gingerly through the human remains littering the asphalt. "We're distraught, this was a good man who died here, our friend. We're sad, but we're angry," said...